15Synonyms found for arsenal

Word Origin & History

arsenal c.150o, "dockyard," from It. arzenale, from Arabic dar as-sina'ah "workshop," lit. "house of manufacture," from dar "house" + sina'ah "art, craft, skill," from sana'a "he made." Applied by the Venetians to a large wharf in their city, which was the earliest meaning in Eng. Sense of "public place for making or storing weapons and ammunition" is from 1570s. The London football club (1886) was named for the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, where the original players worked.

Example Sentences for arsenal

The developed world still has some powerful weapons in its arsenal.

Arsenal trawls the world for players with potential and fielded players from eight.

All this because we've taken a traditional punishment such as flogging out of the arsenal.

Superbugs immune to almost everything in the antibiotic arsenal are the stuff of science fiction.

Scientists can now include online gaming in their problem-solving arsenal.

They believed that the side with the largest arsenal and an expressed readiness to use it would gain leverage during every crisis.

For starters, telephone calls have slipped in prominence in coaches' arsenal of recruiting tactics.

But the arsenal of sentences that don't involve bars is now larger and weightier.

It's an escalating war that requires every weapon in the human arsenal.